Long-awaited explosive demolition boosts Christchurch post-quake recovery.
The quake-damaged 14-storey Radio Network building in Christchurch disappeared in a cloud of demolition dust earlier today.
It took about six seconds for the building to come down after a series of deafening explosions reverberated around the central city.
The dust quickly dispersed to reveal a pile of rubble spread over a relatively small area.
International implosion experts CDI oversaw proceedings as sixty-three kilograms of explosives were detonated by six-year-old Queenstown boy Jayden Halliwell.
The successful implosion, the first-ever in New Zealand, was watched by hundreds from behind a public exclusion barrier and was also streamed live online. Based ont eh success of this blast, it ow seems likely that this implosion could be the first of many as Cera fast-tracks the demolition process.
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